The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Yes sir, it is an A. Wright. Thank you for the compliment! I am extremely proud to own it! I have another that is running an extremely close second to this one!
Sambar Stag as well you say. Well it's cracking and the stag on my Ettrick doesn't compare 
Maybe it needs to go back for a change of clothes.... Beautiful scales on both. Don’t drop the Barlow in the bushes, it will disappear like a chameleon!
Corrugated beauty this morning.
Absolutely Jack thanks for posting that. My statement was very simplistic and there must be multiple reasons why the industry declined. You mention a change in pocket cutlery fashion which was probably just part of the massive social change in post-war Britain as a whole. I always look at the post-war housing boom; urban housing for an urban population. The post-war boom in the urbanite civil service. People wanted the middle-class life-style with the middle class jobs. Who needs a jigged bone pocket knife in the new modern world?
Combine that with an attitude in industry that was probably tired and worn out by war. One of my dad's mates had a theory about that. Everyone who had that "snap" and "get up and go" attitude in Britain had either died in the war; as they were the sort to lead from the front. Or had emigrated; to the US, Australia or places like Rhodesia. They helped make those countries great. I know my mum's cousins did; they emigrated to the U.S. The ones who were left just weren't enough to keep Britain "great".
I don't think though that the treatment of your ex-brother-in-law was particular to the cutlery trade. I knew lads in the the 1990's on the YTS (Youth Training Schemes) apprenticeships who were just treated as tea-makers.And the same attitude still exists. I'm a staff nurse and the way our trainee (student) nurses are treated is disgraceful
Thats stunning. Is that an A.Wright? If so it's got much better stag on than my A.Wright Ettrick
Todays.
Sad to hear about the student nurses, I was talking to a nurse just the other day about the very same thing, a young woman specialising in end of life care. Terrible how all the caring professions are treated here, but particularly nurses 
Stellar is good!Thanks Jack! I really like this small Sambar Lambsfoot. Ever time I carry it I find myself admiring the Stag! It is one of the best I have from anywhere!
I know that’s right!
Yes sir, it is an A. Wright. Thank you for the compliment! I am extremely proud to own it! I have another that is running an extremely close second to this one!
Thanks for that Half/Stop
I have asked Wright's to make me a few up in Sambar on the rare occasions they get hold of any. The pieces are invariably small unfortunately, but they look great where they can be used
That's a good looking knife
I have asked Wright's to make me a few up in Sambar on the rare occasions they get hold of any. The pieces are invariably small unfortunately, but they look great where they can be used
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It's very kind of a small company to do that for you 
Thanks Charlie! @traumkommode reground it from a Navy knife that @Buzzbait sent me in a recent trade. Not only is it a great knife as a tool, but something special as well.
Now there nice covers Jack
From a couple of weeks ago. It's a lot sunnier today
-David.
For those who don't know, "Beans on toast" is the real deal in Birmingham, according to an article in the Guardian.
"Never let it be said that Birmingham does not cover all food bases. Home to four Michelin-starred restaurants, Brum is also, according to a recent Heinz survey, Britain’s baked bean capital: 69% of Brummies eat beans weekly, enabling this alternative windy city to edge out its top five rivals Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Liverpool (London trailed in eighth)".
So, if I'm not around later, have a great Sunday Guardians 
For those who don't know, "Beans on toast" is the real deal in Birmingham, according to an article in the Guardian.
"Never let it be said that Birmingham does not cover all food bases. Home to four Michelin-starred restaurants, Brum is also, according to a recent Heinz survey, Britain’s baked bean capital: 69% of Brummies eat beans weekly, enabling this alternative windy city to edge out its top five rivals Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Liverpool (London trailed in eighth)".
What an accolade!
I'm about to be subjected to another Windows 10 update
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Good luck!
Wow I never knew that but it doesn't surprise me. Brum is also home to "Pork Scratchings". And if the Brummies have lost as many teeth as I have eating those things then I'm not surprised beans are all they can eat
http://www.blackcountrysnacks.com/products/
If your Windows 10 update is anything like my last Windows update, "later" will be about 2032
I've lost two teeth eating BREAD! 
LOL!
When did we start letting technology controlling us, rather than the other way around?
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That wasn't a pork scratching butty by any chance...?
I'm not sure. Technology has it's uses and I enjoy being on Bladeforums but maybe as a whole our reliance on all this electronic wiz-bang stuff has got a bit silly. It now takes longer to turn my telly on than it would of to turn on the tellys in that 1961 magazine you have there
I to, prefer the old ways...
-David
Actually, they were both dental crowns, rather than teeth, and the instances were about 30 years apart, but in the second case, I actually broke the tooth the crown was fitted to, and had to have it pulled I've had plenty of crisp (potato chip) sandwiches, but never a pork scratching (pork rinds) sandwich! I think most things are better between two slices of good bread though - or in a pie! 
Thank you Sir!Beautiful Ron, I love your stag pics
They would never have been possible without your help my friend!
Thank you Sir!
